Topic > World War I: The Root Cause of the Russian Revolution

The upheavals and resource shortages in Russia caused revolutionary upheavals and massive inflation, leading to deprivation of infrastructure. During the First World War, Russian society naturally caused great dissatisfaction among the serfs. As the revolution continued, numerous reforms and Tsar Nicholas II, a ruler, sought to change the social structure and government of Russia. Among the masses there was discontent with Russia's social system and living conditions. The laborers worked and lived in horrendous conditions, which played a crucial role in worsening the conditions of the workers and peasants. As a result, the peasants starved and the Russian armies were overwhelmed on the battlefield because much of the territory was occupied by enemies. So, Imperial Russia was a catastrophe. Some scholars believe that despite the underdeveloped economic, social and political weakness of the Russian Empire during World War I, the economic and social progress of the Russian Empire occurred decades before World War I, which proves that World War I it was not one of the crucial reasons for the Russian revolution. Although one of the reasons for the Russian Revolution was perhaps the Tsar's private rule due to his bad conduct towards the inhabitants, the main cause of the Russian Revolution was the First World War because the First War demonstrated the poor infrastructure of the Russian government both politically than economically. The revolution was brought by military defeats and starvation during the First World War, which began problems on the battlefields. The war did not go well for Russia because supplies to the Russian capital deteriorated significantly. The demands of war exhausted the Russian economy and exposed restrictions on Russian production. All World War I combatants suffered from shortages and trials ...... middle of paper ...... of World War I, which caused conflicts on the battlefields. The demands of war also drained the Russian economy and revealed the limits of Russian production. Furthermore, workers in the cities worked very long hours, which put a strain on Russia's underdeveloped infrastructure. Although there was a catastrophe of political leadership brought by the Tsar, World War I caused the revolution because the war brought the Tsar's military control to its breaking point. This exemplifies the fact that an entire society has been destroyed; therefore, poverty, crime, the privileged and class divisions had to be eliminated, a new era of socialism promised peace, prosperity and equality for all the people of the world. But the social experiment failed, millions of people were killed, and within a generation nearly a third of the world's population was living in the shadow of communism..